Privacy Policy

Data Protection Act 1998—How we use pupil information

We collect and hold information relating to our pupils and may also receive information about them from their previous school, Local Authority and/or Department for Education (DfE).

We use this personal data to:

Support our pupils’ learning;

Monitor and report on their progress;

Provide appropriate pastoral care; and

Assess the quality of our services.

This information will include their contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information, any exclusion information, where they go after they leave us and personal characteristics such as their ethnic group, any special educational needs they may have as well as relevant medical information. For pupils enrolling for post 14 qualifications, the Learning Records Service will give us the unique learner number (ULN) and may also give us details about your learning or qualifications.

Once our pupils reach the age of 13, the law requires us to pass on certain information to Prospects Services, the provider of youth support services in our area who have responsibilities in relation to the education or training of the 13 to 19 year olds. We may also share certain personal data relating to children aged 16 and over with post-16 education and training providers in order to secure appropriate services for them. A parent/guardian can request that only their child’s name, address and date of birth be passed to Prospect Services by informing the school’s Senior Administrative Officer. The right is transferred to the child once she reaches the age 16.

We will not give information about our pupils to anyone without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to so. If you want to see a copy of the information about your daughter that we hold please contact the school’s Senior Administrative Officer.
We are required, by law, to pass some information about our pupils to the Department for Education (DfE). This information will, in turn, then be made available for use by the Local Authority (LA).

DfE may also share pupil level personal data that we supply to them, with third parties. This will only take place where legislation allows it to do so and it is in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Decisions on whether DfE releases this personal data to third parties are subject to a robust approval process and are based on a detailed assessment of who is requesting the data, the purpose for which it is required, the level and sensitivity of data requested and the arrangements in place to store and handle the data. To be granted access to pupil level data, requestors must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality and handling of data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data.

For more information on how this sharing process works, please visit the Government website.

For information on which third party organisations (and for which project) pupil level data has been provided to, please visit the Requests received page of the Government website.

If you need more information about how our local authority and/or DfE collect and use your information, please visit our local authority at the London Borough of Redbridge website; or